
Splitrock
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BREAKING: The House just voted to ADVANCE a bill extending protections for 350,000 Haitians, preventing them from being deported. Every Democrat besides one voted for it.

🚨 BREAKING: Six House Republicans just joined Democrats to PROTECT HAITIAN MIGRANTS, 219-209 Are you KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW!? This would give Haitians temporary protected status — a category in which one of them KlLLED that woman in Florida at a gas station Per Tim Burchett: “A Democrat motion to provide for consideration that legal immigrants status to Haitians.” “It provides legal immigrants status to Haitians who are already in the United States. So you have illegal Haitians here and we're going to allow them to stay. And [several] Republicans, look them up, who they were.” “You can pretty much guess, but go ahead and look them up. Anyway, unbelievable. This is one time I'm glad for an inaction in the Senate.” “That's what we've become. We gotta, we gotta clean this mess up up here.” REPUBLICAN “YEAs”: - Salazar - Bacon - Fitzpatrick - Gimenez - Lawler - Malliotakis It’s not final passage, but this is the motion moving forward.


First crude tanker moves west through Hormuz since U.S. blockade The Malta flagged ‘VLCC Agios Fanourios’ is the first crude carrier to transit westbound through the Strait of Hormuz following the U.S. blockade on Iran’s ports. It aborted its first attempt on Sunday when US-Iran talks collapsed in Islamabad, then succeeded on its second try today, transiting along a Tehran-approved route between Qeshm and Larak islands. According to Iranian media, the ship is carrying 2 million barrels of oil.


🚨 Virginia has joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. This brings America one step closer to a national popular vote for President.


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Confirmed, 53-47 : Confirmation of Executive Calendar #674 Christopher R. Wolfe to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas.


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